Newcastle Fans Still Have Deep Mistrust Of Owner Mike Ashley

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

9:48am Tuesday, June 27th, 2017

Commented 29 times

Even though there seemed to be some positive news on Mike Ashley supporting Rafa Benitez in the transfer market in the Shields Gazette this morning, there are a lot of Newcastle fans out there just not buying it.

They still see Ashley and Charnley trying to do good deals for every single transaction (transfer) and that’s exactly why we are struggling to sign players – we are busy penny-pinching again.

In fact to support that notion there’s news from Spain that Eibar are surprised Newcastle are still quarreling over small things as to how they will pay for Florian Lejeune’s release clause 0f £8.7M – and that’s one reason this specific transfer has dragged on for over two weeks.

Lee Charnley and Mike Ashley As was have said many times before, there’s nothing wrong with trying to get good deals, but you don’t want to overdo it and hold up every deal trying to save a buck here or a buck there.

There are still lots of fans who thinks that’s just exactly why we are not able to close any deals this summer and you can see that by looking at the tweets coming in this morning from fans.

One final thing on finances – the transfer market does not open officially for business until July 1st, when the new financial year begins, so it’s not even possible for Newcastle to complete a transfer deal this month.

You can agree deals but not sign them until July 1st – see following tweet.

People need to remember that Ashley likes to balance the books. So he will want signings to wait till July and the next financial year #nufc

29 comments so far

There’s no problem with trying to get a good deal but if 8.7 for Lejune isn’t a good deal then he’s not good enough to be at Newcastle surely? Under 10 mill for a starting CB in today’s market has to be a relative bargain?

I’m happy to give the club another week to bring in players. Nobody knows what’s going on behind the scenes and as has been pointed out, the window isn’t even officially open yet. Another week won’t hurt either way. I’m pretty confident that the record will be broken again this summer, so that’s a lot of money yet to be spent. This is nothing unusual really. Slow start, then the deals start flowing and don’t stop until the final minute where people are still trying to get deals done. I think we’ll see real movement this week with some happy faces outside SJP. 🙂

Rafas alleged 8 players could simply be one for each position. Gk, CB, FB, DM, WG, 10, CF. Thats 7, so the 8th would be a utility wide player covering the wide positions where only one side has been covered. Just a theory.

“Newcastle very much went against the wages growth trend in the Premier League in 2014/15 when they reduced the wage bill. Only two other clubs did the same (Manchester United and Manchester City were both 5% lower), but Newcastle’s decrease was the largest by some distance with a 17% cut.

One exception to the wages decrease was the highest paid director, presumably Lee Charnley, who saw his remuneration jump 40% from £107k to £150k.”

I love all the worry people are going through, there has been 20 total transfers so far and one of them is ours, city, Liverpool, Leicester and Watford have bought two and Brighton have bought 3 these are the only clubs to have signed more players than us and other than Brighton they have all signed ONE more player. Relax, I’m sure by or on July 1st we will have one maybe two holding the shirt smiling.

Mark, I used to keep tarantulas when I had my flat in Byker in the eighties. I had six. Mexican red knee, Mexican red rump, pink toed bird eating spider, West African Zebra, Haitian Brown and Haitian Black. The two Haitians were aggressive and not ‘handlers’, but whereas the Mexican breeds were pussy cats and would happily crawl all over anybody. Very relaxing to watch. I had red lights in their tanks, which apparently they can’t see, so with the room lights off they’d go into exploring mode. The Mexican Red knee was about as big as my hand, with the pink toe, despite being a ‘bird eater’ was the smallest,but kept growing each shed of skin. Fascinating creatures and much maligned – wrongly imo.

I’ve heard that most of the bites are pretty harmless to us (although they hurt). They had a couple at the gate in town a couple of years ago. The handlers said the worst thing about them is the hairs. they release them as a defense mechanism, and you can be blinded by them!

My source hwo works at st’james is saying that there are lot more people running around inside today and it lookes like they are preparing for something.. Lots of cameras etc. Nothing “unusual” but could it be a signing?? Time will tell

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